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I discussed this with Tim Caswell, author of js-git, here in this podcast episode: http://episodes.gitminutes.com/2015/04/gitminutes-34-tim-cas...

I promptly reached out to GitLab, but I guess at the time they hadn't found it to be a use-case worth the trouble: https://twitter.com/gitlab/status/572860578646999040?cn=cmVw...